Locking device for milk-bottles and other objects.



A. J. KRABER.

LOCKING DEVICE FOR MILK BOTTLES AND OTHER'OBJECTS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-11.19I4.

1;1 88,459. Patented June 27,1916.

. WITNESSES INVENTOR ZQM' 67 ARANT J. KBABER, 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

LOCKING DEVICE FOR MILK-BOTTLES AND OTHER OBJECTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 27, 1916.

Application filed December 11, 1914. Serial No. 876,656.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARANT J. KRABER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Looking Devices for Milk-Bottles and other Objects, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to devices for locking milk bottles against unauthorized removal when left at a customers residence or other place.

The object of my invention is to provide a convenient and effective device in which a milk bottle may be placed, and locked against unauthorized removal; to provide a simple device, designated a keeper, for re taining the bottle in a holder so that it cannot be removed except when released by the opening of a door or from the interior of the residence or from the rear side of the wall or other support for the holder; and'to provide a simple means for causing the retaining device, or keeper, to be removed out of locking position as soon as it has been released.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation showing a form of my invention; Fig. 2, across-section of Fig. 1, parts being shown in plan; Fig. 3, an elevation showing the keeper unlocked, the door open, and the receptacle in dotted lines at a higher position that in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, a plan of the receptacle and its holder. Fig. 5 is a section showing how the receptacle is secured to its support.

On the drawing the vertical support 1 is a door casing or the like to which the door 27 is hinged. The block or strip 2 to which the receptacle-holding plate 13 is secured to the casing 1 close to the door 27. The receptacle 6 is secured to the strip 2 by the hooks 10 which extend upwardly from the metal strip 28 secured to the strip 2*. The strip 28 is provided with three hooks 10 in vertical alinement. When a full-sized bottle 7 is to be deposited in the receptacle,

the latter is hung on the lower two of the" hooks, but when a shorter bottle is to be d'eposited in the receptacle, the latter is hung I on the upper two hooks 10 the receptacle then taking the position shown in dotted lines on Fig. 3.

The keeper 11 is arranged to be swung down on its pivot 01: hinge-pin 12 so as to lie over the top. of the bottle 7"- when the latter is sealedin the receptacle 6*, as shown on Fig. 1. The keeper carries the horizontal detent or catch 16 which is yieldingly pressed toward the door 27 by the spring 18 and, when free to do so, extends toward thedoor a short distance beyond the keeper.

The operation is as follows: The door 27 being closed as shown on Fig. 2, and the keeper being swung to its upper position and held there by the spring 22 the bottle 7 a is placed in the receptacle 6 The keeperis then pulled down over the top of the bottle to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2,whereupon the catch 16, which has been pushed partially into the keeper and has been constantly pushed'by the spring 18 against the plate 30 on the door 27, is forced by the spring 18 into the hole 31 in the plate 30. When the door 27 is opened the plate 30 is moved away from the catch 16, where 7 of the bottle, that the bottle, when seated in the receptacle and on the support 8, cannot be lifted sufliciently to permit its bottom to be slid sidewise over the top of the receptacle. The flangeof the keeper surrounds the upper end of the bottle and fits it sufliciently well to prevent the top of the bottle from being moved from beneath the keeper.

I claim I 1 V 1. In a device of the class described, a wall, a receptacle at one side thereof having means to prevent the bottle therein from moving laterally and downwardly, a keeper pivotally connected to the wall and having a portion arranged to be swung downwardly into the upward path of a bottle in the receptacle so as to prevent the bottle from being movedupwardly out of the receptacle and laterally from beneath the keeper, a door, a catch carried by the keeper and engageable by the door when'closed to prevent the upward movement of the keeper until the door is opened, ,7

the path whichthe bottletakes-while being moved upwardly from the receptacle, a door adjacent to the keeper, and means associated with the keeper and the door whereby the keeper may be locked down when the door is closed and released when the door is opened.

3. In a device of the class described, a wall, a bottle holding receptacle, means whereby the latter may be secured to the former at different heights, a keeper ar- 7 ranged to be moved over the upper end of a bottle when in the receptacle, so as to prevent its movement upwardly out of the receptacle, and means for releasably locking the keeper when so moved.

4. In a device of the class described, a

wall, a receptacle secured thereto and having means for preventing a bottle therein from moving laterally and downwardly, a keeper having a portion adapted to be moved into the upwardpath of a bottle in the receptacle, a door, a catch engageable by the door for locking the keeper down when the door is closed to prevent the upward movement of the keeper until the door is opened.

Signed at Pittsburgh, Pa, this 9th "day of December, A. D. 1914.

ARANT J. KRABER.

Witnesses ALICE" E. DUFF, F. N. BARBER.

V opies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

